Thursday, May 30, 2013

What Are You Reading This Weekend?

One
by one, they will die. He has waited patiently, planning their final
moments. Their tortured screams, their pleas for mercy—all will be in
vain...

And Hope…

Homicide detective Julia Cass has
witnessed plenty of crime scenes. But the murder of a Chattanooga judge
is shocking in its brutality. Teamed with FBI agent Will Brannock, Julia
delves into an investigation that soon unearths more bodies—all
mutilated in the same way, all left with a gruesome souvenir of a
killer’s ruthless rage…

To Die…

The only way to stop the
slaughter is to predict the next victim. But when you’re dealing with
vengeance at its most ruthless, one wrong move can make you a target…and
the next word you utter could be your last…

Cat Trick by Sofie Kelly

A group of Mayville
Heights’ business people hope to convince the Chicago-based company,
Legacy Tours, to sell a vacation package in their town. Legacy Tours
partner, Mike Glazer, grew up in Mayville Heights, but it seems he’s not
the same small-town boy people remember.

Everyone seems to have an
issue with the opinionated loudmouth Mike has become—until someone shuts
him up for good.

When Kathleen and her cat, Hercules, discover
Mike’s body near the boardwalk, she can’t help but get involved in the
investigation—even if it might torpedo her relationship with Detective
Marcus Gordon.

Now, with a little help from Hercules and Owen, it’s up
to Kathleen to make sure the killer is booked for an extended stay in
prison before some else takes a permanent vacation.

Trouble Shooter by Louis L’Amour (Western)

Hopalong Cassidy is one
of the most enduring and popular heroes in frontier fiction. His
legendary exploits in books, movies, and on television have blazed a
mythic and unforgettable trail across the American West. Now, in the
last of four Hopalong Cassidy novels written by Louis L'Amour, the
immortal saddleman rides again—this time into a lonely valley of danger
and death.

Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from
the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher
Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friends has been
murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, had
vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save
Pete, but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he find that
cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfully hers.

Colonel
Justin Tradwar, criminal kingpin of the town of Kachina, is the owner
of the sprawling Box T ranch, and he has built his empire with a shrewd
and ruthless determination. In search of Pete's killers and Cindy's
ranch, Hopalong signs on at the Box T, promising to help get Tradway's
wild cattle out of the rattler-infested brush. But in the land of
mesquite and black chaparral, Cassidy confronts a mystery as hellish as
it is haunting—a bloody trail that leads to the strange and forbidding
Babylon plateau, to $60,000 in stolen gold, and to a showdown with an
outlaw who has already cheated death once... and is determined to do it
again.

Bitter Night by Diana P. Francis

SOMETIMES YOU CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES. AND SOMETIMES, THEY CHOOSE YOU...

Once,
Max dreamed of a career, a home, a loving family. Now all she wants is
freedom...and revenge. A witch named Giselle transformed Max into a
warrior with extraordinary strength, speed, and endurance. Bound by
spellcraft, Max has no choice but to fight as Giselle's personal magic
weapon — a Shadowblade — and she's lethally good at it. But her skills
are about to be put to the test as they never have before....

The
ancient Guardians of the earth are preparing to unleash widespread
destruction on the mortal world, and they want the witches to help them.
If the witches refuse, their covens will be destroyed, including
Horngate, the place Max has grudgingly come to think of as home.

Max
thinks she can find a way to help Horngate stand against the Guardians,
but doing so will mean forging dangerous alliances — including one with a
rival witch's Shadowblade, who is as drawn to Max as she is to him —
and standing with the witch she despises. Max will have to choose
between the old life she still dreams of and the warrior she has become,
and take her place on the side of right — if she survives long enough
to figure out which side that is.